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9/11 trial

Risky setting for trial of 9/11 top suspect

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Hanging out with guys in green shirts

A new State Fair attendance record: nearly 1.8 million

The Great Minnesota Get-Together certainly lived up to its name this year.

Fair video

A ticket to the Fairgrounds buys you all sorts of entertainment, from amateur singers to earnest dancers to servers who pause from slinging burgers to burst into song. Here's a quick tour.

Great Get-Together says goodbye again

Tilt-A-Whirl

On the last day of the State Fair, the sights are especially delightful, the food especially delicious.

At the fair: What you don't see

Trisha Pederson of Ogilvie cleaned up after the 10 head of cattle her...

The hardest 12 days of work happens behind the scenes at the fair. Long hours, thankless cleanup, but some of the workers see it as a vacation.

Shuttle service not so fair for wheelchairs

It improved over the State Fair's run, but the switch to private buses forced some users to find other options.

Yesterday's News blog

Sept. 8, 1909: Preemies at the fair

Hurry, hurry, hurry!

The Minnesota State Fair has featured many unusual attractions in its 150-year history: death-defying aerial acts, colliding locomotives, freak shows, live animal births, the Minnesota Iceman and premature babies in incubators. Wait … what?

A midway birthday: The fair brings out the kid in all of us

At the fair

With a little more luck, he could have been born at the fair -- another pregnant friend and I staggered around with our older kids in strollers last year, two days from my due date, reassuring ourselves that the folks at the Miracle of Birth barn would surely know what to do if it came down to it.

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Find details of express bus service, park-and-ride locations, admission fees and hours of the Minnesota State Fair.

New fair food
Maple syrup soda and the Nacho Mama Dog are some of critic Rick Nelson's new favorite foods at this year's State Fair. Find classic favorites, too.